Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

When: September 17, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV
Moderators:Bill Ricker
Shava Nerad, Founding executive director of the Tor Project

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.


Summary
Bill's annual Crypto News update, a history of TOR, and our annual
keysigning party. Pre-register your PGP key before the meeting!

Abstract

Add your key to the keysigning party checksheet:
[url]http://blu.org/keysignings/[/url]

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP
encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each
others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a
great degree. Key signing parties also serve as great opportunities to
discuss the political and social issues surrounding strong cryptography,
individual liberties, individual sovereignty, and even implementing
encryption technologies or perhaps future work on free encryption software.

The basic workflow of signing someone's key is as follows:

[list] [*]Verify that the person actually is who they claim to be;
[*]Have them verify their key ID and fingerprint; [*]Sign their key;
[*]Send the signed key back to them [/list]

At the meeting, we go through the first two steps. Each person who
preregistered their key will announce their presence and then read off
their key ID and fingerprint, so everyone can verify that their copy of
the list of keys is correct. Once we've run down the list, we line up,
and each of us examines everyone else's photo IDs to verify that they
are who they claim to be. After the meeting is over, each participant
can then retrieve the keys that they've personally verified, sign those
keys, and send the signed keys back to their respective owners.

In order to complete the keysigning in the allotted time, we follow
a formal procedure as seen in V. Alex Brennen's "GnuPG Keysigning Party
HOWTO", attached below. It is strongly advised that if you have not been
to a keysigning party before, you read this document. We're using the
List-based method for this keysigning party, and the keyserver at
subkeys.pgp.net.

It is essential that, before the meeting, you register on the signup
form listed in the attachments. You should bring at least one picture ID
with you. You must also bring your own printout of the report on that
page, so you can check off the names/keys of the people you have
personally verified.

The list will be printed on Wednesday afternoon, the day of the
meeting; be sure to register your key for the keysigning before that.
The official cutoff time is 3:00 pm.

Additional Links:
Registration http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php
GNUPG Keysigning Party Howto:
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
GNU Privacy Guard: http://www.gnupg.org/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Software Freedom Day - Sat, Sept 20, 2014

When: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9AM - 5PM

Location: Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA

Directions
10 - 15 minute walk from Central Square T stop
or take 68 or 69 bus

Cost: Free

Notes

1) Breakfast and lunch provided by RedHat and Akamai.
Thank you sponsors!

2) Interested in giving a lightning talk? Spots available.
Please send me your name and topic.

Summary

Join us at our annual
celebration of free software.
This year's schedule includes
talks on:

-- free software for smart phones
-- protecting your privacy
-- how to contribute to
free software (you don't need
to be a techie)
-- how to make money with free
software.

Beginners, experts and
everyone in between are
welcome to this free event!

Interested in giving a
lightning talk? We'd love to
hear from you. Contact Will
Rico.

More event info here:
http://meetu.ps/2sB29b

More Events & Announcements

Crypto News + Keysigning Party at MIT
Wednesday, September 17 at 6:30
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-sep

An Evening of IoT at MIT
Friday, September 19 at 6:30pm
http://www.iotinit.com/

Learning to Change the World (Walter Bender of Sugar Labs)
Wednesday, November 5
http://meetu.ps/2pxLP8

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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIII reminder - today, Saturday September 13, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LII
When: Saturday September 13, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Lunch is generously sponsored By John Ross and Ron Thibeau, owners,
Bluefin Technical Services.

Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

When: September 17, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV
Moderators:Bill Ricker
Shava Nerad, Founding executive director of the Tor Project

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315


Summary
Bill's annual Crypto News update, a history of TOR, and our annual
keysigning party. Pre-register your PGP key before the meeting!

Abstract

Add your key to the keysigning party checksheet:
[url]http://blu.org/keysignings/[/url]

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP
encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each
others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a
great degree. Key signing parties also serve as great opportunities to
discuss the political and social issues surrounding strong cryptography,
individual liberties, individual sovereignty, and even implementing
encryption technologies or perhaps future work on free encryption software.

The basic workflow of signing someone's key is as follows:

[list] [*]Verify that the person actually is who they claim to be;
[*]Have them verify their key ID and fingerprint; [*]Sign their key;
[*]Send the signed key back to them [/list]

At the meeting, we go through the first two steps. Each person who
preregistered their key will announce their presence and then read off
their key ID and fingerprint, so everyone can verify that their copy of
the list of keys is correct. Once we've run down the list, we line up,
and each of us examines everyone else's photo IDs to verify that they
are who they claim to be. After the meeting is over, each participant
can then retrieve the keys that they've personally verified, sign those
keys, and send the signed keys back to their respective owners.

In order to complete the keysigning in the allotted time, we follow
a formal procedure as seen in V. Alex Brennen's "GnuPG Keysigning Party
HOWTO", attached below. It is strongly advised that if you have not been
to a keysigning party before, you read this document. We're using the
List-based method for this keysigning party, and the keyserver at
subkeys.pgp.net.

It is essential that, before the meeting, you register on the signup
form listed in the attachments. You should bring at least one picture ID
with you. You must also bring your own printout of the report on that
page, so you can check off the names/keys of the people you have
personally verified.

The list will be printed on Wednesday afternoon, the day of the
meeting; be sure to register your key for the keysigning before that.
The official cutoff time is 3:00 pm.

Additional Links:
Registration http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php
GNUPG Keysigning Party Howto:
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
GNU Privacy Guard: http://www.gnupg.org/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90

Monday, September 8, 2014

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIII Saturday September 13, 2014

Boston Linux Installfest LII
When: Saturday September 13, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install.
Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB
creators.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.1 - DVD/Live CD/)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Soucy Salamander 13.10 CD/USB)


We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora
require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared.

We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The
wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT".


In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.2.6.
(http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows
8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also
some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.


Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.

--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

RSVP Required: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Write Your First Android App - Weds, Sept 3, 2014

When: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 6:30PM

Location: Akamai, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
<http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>
<http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
<http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html>>
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) RSVP *is* required this month.

2) This is *not* the same Akamai building we usually meet in.
The RSVP requirement is due to this building's security
procedures. See location above.

3) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

4) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

5) We have tickets to the MongoDB Boston conference to
raffle off, courtesy of MongoLab (https://mongolab.org).
Must attend in person for a chance to win.

Summary

Adam Stroud is the author of
Professional Android Sensor
Programming, former lead
developer at RunKeeper, and
current lead developer at
Mustbin. He is a
self-proclaimed "phandroid"
and is an active participant
in the Android virtual
community on StackOverflow and
Android Google groups.

All skill levels are welcome!

Transportation & Parking

The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T
stop and other public transportation.

Metered parking is normally available near our location.

More Events & Announcements

Linux InstallFest LIII at MIT
Saturday, September 13, 2014 9am - 5pm
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-ifest53>

An Evening of IoT at MIT
Friday, September 19 at 6:30pm
http://www.iotinit.com/

Software Freedom Day at Industry Lab in Cambridge
September 20th, 9am-5pm
http://meetu.ps/2sB29b

Learning to Change the World (Walter Bender of Sugar Labs)
Wednesday, November 5
http://meetu.ps/2pxLP8
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Announce mailing list
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